Jellicle Cats are white and black,Jellicle Cats are of moderate size;Jellicle Cats jump like a jumping-jack,Jellicle Cats have moonlit eyes.They're quitet enough in the morning hours,They're quitet enough in the afternoon,Reserving their terpsichorean powersTo dance by the light of the Jellicle Moon.

Woohoo!!! We need some more players, though (um, no offense, Thers & tigre). I know at least two Atriots who are movie buffs - I'll call them out by name next week, see if I can shame them into playing.

Yes, I suspected as much. One of these days I may even figure out what some of those other areas are. (Unless... Ew.)

I'm not sure if I would go so far as to ban Toby, but Gordon, absolutely. Toby is just a basic standard-issue Obtuse Troll, but Gordon crossed the line into malicious and abusive, and most of the time doesn't even attempt to make an argument.

I don't believe in stifling dissent, even insincere dissent, but that's not what Gordon is trafficking in.

As far as Toby, Gordon, and Schwa?, etc... go, if Atriots would ignore them, not respond in any way to their posts, they would find some other blog to troll. Way back in 95-97, I used to comment on the AOL threads. AOL had a button to use to ignore certain people. If you didn't want to see what they wrote, you (the commenter) could just put them on ignore. It was terrific. If Haloscan would include that in their software, it would be a great help. Then, we could just put them on ignore, and they wouldn't be banned.

Yep, Mom's kitties were extremely good at blissful sleeping, possibly even more so than the average cat.

Ignore would be great, although it still wouldn't really block the responses of all the people who feel obliged to respond to the trolls.

What really bugs me is when the thread gets so thoroughly hijacked that ignoring the trolls leaves you with no-one else to talk to and nothing to talk about (I'm not sure "small I" ignoring Gordon would work, actually - I'm pretty sure he would just continue offering up snappy comebacks to comments that weren't directed at him).